Adaptive Athletes and Sports: How Clinical Expertise can Create Safety in Adaptive Sports and Recreation

Monday, October 10, 2022

7:00 PM – 8:30 PM ET

Community Session Director(s)

Melissa J. Tinney, MD (she/her/hers)

Clinical Assistant Professor
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan

Disclosure: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

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Community Session Faculty(s)

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Alexander M. Senk, MD

Deputy Chief of PM&R; Medical Director of PM&R Sports Medicine
Veterans Affairs Medical Center
Minneapolis, Minnesota

Disclosure: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
Deanna Brinks, MD

Resident Physician
University of Michigan Health System PM&R Program
Ann Arbor, Michigan

Disclosure: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
MU

Mike Uihlein, MD

assistant professor, emergency medicine, medical college of wisconsin, team physician US sled team
medical college of wisconsin / clement j zablocki va medical canter
Grafton, Wisconsin

Disclosure: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Session Description: As a community we hope to increase participation in adaptive sports and recreation. Safety has been identified as a barrier to participation and program creation. This session will review how adaptive sports medicine and clinical expertise can create a safe environment for all who come to play!

Should this session offer CME? : Yes

Length of Session: 90 minutes, with 15 minutes for each speaker and 15 minutes Q&A

Learning Objectives:

Identify safety considerations when recommending a patient to participate in adaptive sports and recreation.
Provide concussion screening in wheelchair athletes, understanding the differences from current standard protocols.
Identify common emergencies that occur in adaptive sports and how best to prepare.
Understand how autonomic completeness and the hidden dangers of boosting can be problematic in adaptive sports.